Israel committing crimes against humanity in occupied West Bank: UN

Israeli authorities and forces are committing crimes against humanity including extermination, torture, rape and different forms of intersexual violence, says report.

Israel has committed crimes against humanity including “extermination” successful the occupied West Bank, United Nations-mandated investigators person reported.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry connected the Occupied Palestinian Territory said connected Monday that the Israeli authorities and its forces are besides liable for different warfare crimes and crimes against humanity successful the Palestinian territory, including torture, rape and different forms of intersexual violence.

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The merchandise of the study came arsenic Israeli forces carried retired a clampdown, including expulsions and demolitions, connected Hebron pursuing a weapon onslaught past week.

The commission, which does not talk for the UN itself, archetypal determined successful a September 2025 study that Israel had committed “genocide” successful its warfare connected Gaza pursuing Hamas’s deadly October 7, 2023 onslaught connected Israel – a uncovering Israel flatly rejects.

In its caller report, issued the time earlier Israel’s wide election, the committee recovered that successful the West Bank – which Israel has occupied since 1967 – Israeli military operations, reinforced by sustained settler violence, represent a “widespread and systematic attack” against civilians.

“The Israeli authorities and forces person committed the crimes against humanity of extermination, torture, rape and different forms of intersexual unit successful the West Bank, arsenic good arsenic persecution based connected intersecting discriminatory grounds, with nationality, contention and ethnicity astatine its core,” it said.

Israel’s ngo successful Geneva said the study was portion of the inquiry’s “misinformation run to demonise the State of Israel and represent its precise beingness arsenic criminal”.

“The planetary assemblage indispensable cull these distortions, repudiate the commission’s findings and request its contiguous dissolution,” it said successful a statement.

Peace prize

The three-member UN investigative squad was established by the UN Human Rights Council successful 2021.

Former South African High Court justice Navi Pillay, who chaired the probe until November 2025, won the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month.

The commission’s caller study is focused connected killings and bodily and intelligence harm caused by some Israeli and Palestinian information forces since October 2023.

It recovered that the concern successful the occupied West Bank has deteriorated gravely since the Palestinian equipped radical Hamas’s onslaught from Gaza that month.

The committee recovered that the Israeli authorities “intended to collectively punish” West Bank civilians owed to the Hamas attack.

Israel’s subject violative connected Gaza has displaced astir the full colonisation of Gaza and killed much than 74,500 people, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, betwixt October 7, 2023 and October 9, 2026, 1,143 Palestinians – astatine slightest 250 of them children – were killed successful the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.